Walter Salles

Birthday: 12 April 1956, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Birth Name: Walther Moreira Salles Jr.

Walter Salles was born on April 12, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as Walther Moreira Salles Jr. He is a director and producer, known for Diarios de motocicleta (2004), Central do Brasil (1998) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He is married to Maria Klabin. They have one child.

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young cultu...Show more »

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised. So the films that are made in our latitudes, I think, carry that sense of urgency. It's as if the people that you meet on the street and the stories that they bring can influence you directly. Show less «

You have to be careful not to open all the windows and be totally free and unprepared, but you have ...Show more »

You have to be careful not to open all the windows and be totally free and unprepared, but you have to try to capture reality as it happens. You see that very much in a refined and yet very simple form in [Abbas] Kiarostami's films, and I'm so impressed by the immediacy and the truth that you find in his films that it just transports you to a completely different level, as if nothing is truly staged. Show less «

I think I turned to documentary film-making very early on as a way to know a little bit more about m...Show more »

I think I turned to documentary film-making very early on as a way to know a little bit more about my country and my roots. My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture. So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil. I really wanted to know the heart of it much better than I did. Show less «

I don't think we can say what the Latin American identity is, but I think we can try to look for it,...Show more »

I don't think we can say what the Latin American identity is, but I think we can try to look for it, and look for the reverberations from it. Show less «

I'm completely uninterested in what you may call a career in film-making. I'm much more interested i...Show more »

I'm completely uninterested in what you may call a career in film-making. I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films. Show less «

Walter Salles

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